Cargo Ship Fuel Cost Savings Possible With New Technology

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Cargo Ship Fuel Cost Savings Possible With New
Technology
1888PressRelease - New technology can result in
10 to 30 fuel cost savings, allowing engines to
use the same fuel, but at much higher fuel
conversion efficiency. New York, NY - Fuel
conversion efficiency is a measure of how
effectively fuel is transformed into usable
energy. Each type of fuel has a specific
energy-producing potential per unit of weight,
but some or most of that potential is lost in
existing internal combustion engines. While 100
efficiency is always the goal, in practice the
fuel conversion efficiency of most engines is
very low, in the range of 20 to 30. This is
particularly true for internal combustion
engines. After more than 100 years of technology
development, automobiles rarely boast better than
20 fuel conversion efficiency. Cargo ships use
larger engines which can have very low fuel
conversion efficiencies. Clearly, there is room
for improvement. Increasing fuel conversion
efficiency translates directly to decreasing fuel
costs. A known method to increase fuel
conversion efficiency is to add a small amount of
hydrogen to the fuel. This works well for small
engines, but the amount of hydrogen needed can
make this method impractical for large engines
because of on-board storage of hydrogen. The new
technology can generate hydrogen at ANY rate
(liters per minute), limited only by the hardware
design. The result is that two problems have been
solved -- delivery of hydrogen at high rates and
producing it on demand, so that hydrogen storage
tanks are not required.
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The new technology, called Catalytic Carbon
Hydrogen On Demand, CC-HOD, can produce hydrogen
at the rate needed to obtain a 10 to 30 fuel
cost savings for internal combustion engines.
This new technology works by simply adding a
small amount of hydrogen to common fuels so that
engines can continue to use the same fuel, but at
much higher fuel conversion efficiency. The
materials needed to produce hydrogen using this
method are only scrap metal and water. The good
news is that this can be sea water. Distilled
water is not needed for the CC-HOD method of
producing hydrogen. This new method is energy
efficient. CC-HOD is the only technology,
worldwide, that can generate hydrogen at any rate
desired using less energy than the useful energy
released when the hydrogen is used (combusted or
burned). If the hardware is designed to operate
at thermal equilibrium, input power is needed
only during turn-on and heat-up, when the
hydrogen-producing cell is heated to
approximately 180F. After heating the cell,
hydrogen can be produced at any rate desired,
with no more input power required to operate the
cell. The chemical reaction is exothermic
(produces some heat) and that can be used to
offset cooling of the cell during
operation. Generating the hydrogen at the rate
needed, when and only when needed, is a
requirement for new system engineering studies
based on the use of hydrogen to obtain fuel cost
reduction for cargo ships.
Why hasn't hydrogen been used to obtain large
fuel cost savings? Storage of large volumes of
hydrogen is neither practical nor is it safe,
particularly on cargo ships and tanker ships. The
use of hydrogen on demand (CC-HOD) eliminates the
cost and need for storing hydrogen in tanks.
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The new CC-HOD process can produce hydrogen at
very high rates. The world's first 30
gallon-per-minute process using catalysts for
producing hydrogen-for-fuel was recently
demonstrated by Phillips Company. This
demonstrated breakthrough in hydrogen production
was the basis for the first Hydrogen Design
Conference held recently to focus on
Hydrogen-for-fuel CC-HOD equipment design.
Historically, electrolysis is a method that has
been used to produce hydrogen. Electrolysis is
not a practical method for use on cargo-ship
engines. Electrolysis would require thousands of
Amperes of electrical currrent to produce
hydrogen at the high rates needed for fuel cost
reduction in cargo ships. An important
characteristic of this new breakthrough is that
CC-HOD requires no external power input after the
hydrogen-producing reaction is started, making
possible, for the first time, the scale-up to
high rates of hydrogen on demand (HOD) using
water and scrap materials for fuel. Using
hydrogen produced with this new method, test
vehicle data has shown a fuel cost reduction and
a mileage improvement of 32 for smaller engines.
These results are documented online. The next
step is to prove that this new method can be used
in much larger engines to obtain fuel cost
reduction. How much fuel cost saving can be
obtained using this new method? The cost
savings can vary depending on fuel type (bunker
fuel or diesel). The fuel consumption rate
depends on the size of the cargo ship and the
speed of the ship. These operational variable
factors are considered in a new engineering study
and cost analysis in which fuel cost-saving
calculations assume a ship described as follows
21 knots 8000 TEU ship size fuel consumed 150
tons/day ship in route 300 days per year. For
such a ship, this new method offers the
possibility of achieving a net fuel cost savings
approximately 8 million USD per year. This
method for obtaining fuel cost savings is
described in a document available online at
http//www.PhillipsCompany.4T.com/AP.html
This new method is available now for fuel cost
reduction
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A growing number of equipment manufacturers are
planning the commercialization of this new method
for producing hydrogen fuel at high flow rates by
extracting hydrogen from water, using scrap paper
and scrap aluminum, two of the world's safest and
lowest-cost industrial materials. This new
method is available to any company that needs a
hydrogen production process that uses more water
than scrap materials. The scrap materials do not
have to be pure, making the materials less
expensive. The hydrogen production process can
operate using non-corrosive pH-neutral water,
even if it is dirty, and can operate using sea
water, the most abundant source of hydrogen on
earth. More information www.PhillipsCompany.4T.
com/AP.html